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authorAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>2006-08-18 11:22:21 -0700
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-08-24 10:07:23 +1000
commitc9169f8747bb282cbe518132bf7d49755a00b6c1 (patch)
tree1357eb203b7e3c80d6ea2036df664e1a3a401555 /arch/powerpc/mm
parentd55c4a76f26160482158cd43788dcfc96a320a4f (diff)
downloadlinux-c9169f8747bb282cbe518132bf7d49755a00b6c1.tar.gz
[POWERPC] hugepage BUG fix
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 08:22 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> kernel BUG in cache_free_debugcheck at mm/slab.c:2748!

Alright, this one is only triggered when slab debugging is enabled.  The
slabs are assumed to be aligned on a HUGEPTE_TABLE_SIZE boundary.  The free
path makes use of this assumption and uses the lowest nibble to pass around
an index into an array of kmem_cache pointers.  With slab debugging turned
on, the slab is still aligned, but the "working" object pointer is not.
This would break the assumption above that a full nibble is available for
the PGF_CACHENUM_MASK.

The following patch reduces PGF_CACHENUM_MASK to cover only the two least
significant bits, which is enough to cover the current number of 4 pgtable
cache types.  Then use this constant to mask out the appropriate part of
the huge pte pointer.

Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/mm')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 266b8b2ceac9..5615acc29527 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ static void free_hugepte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, hugepd_t *hpdp)
 	hpdp->pd = 0;
 	tlb->need_flush = 1;
 	pgtable_free_tlb(tlb, pgtable_free_cache(hugepte, HUGEPTE_CACHE_NUM,
-						 HUGEPTE_TABLE_SIZE-1));
+						 PGF_CACHENUM_MASK));
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES